Fold client offers unsupported project (climateprediction.net)

Project help Fold for Covid
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This seems a little off-topic but since the Fold client offers support for the climate prediction project I would have expected this to work.

I tried to set this up today and got as far as the client attempting to acquire work units at which point I receive the following error:

Master file download succeeded
Sending schedular request: Project initialization.
Requesting new tasks for CPU

Scheduler request completed: got 0 new tasks
Message from server: This project doesn’t support computers of type aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu

Is there any way around this using the Balena Fold BOINC client, or is it just unsupported on a Pi 4 ?

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Looking for solution I found the article that describes similar problem. If you go to troubleshooting section, you’ll see a suggestion from author to add an entry in cc_config.xml file:

<options>
          <alt_platform>aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu</alt_platform>
  </options>

Another answer suggesting same: https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/forum_thread.php?id=13167&postid=93199#93199

Please, let us know if this works for you.

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Hi @karaxuna, thank you for the prompt response and search expertise. I am not local to the hardware at the moment and I don’t fancy my chances in modifying system files remotely via the dashboard if that is possible (if it is and dead easy to do I am happy to learn something new today) so this will probably have to wait until the weekend. I will check it out though and let you know what happens.

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You can use terminal on dashboard to run commands. That should be easy.

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I couldn’t figure out how to do that via the dashboard but after a fair bit of hunting around among the various partitions of the physical card I eventually found what looks like the relevant file here:

:\docker\volumes\1766994_boinc_data

… and found the following already in there:

<cc_config>

<alt_platform>aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu</alt_platform>

</cc_config>

So that would appear not to be the resolution to this problem. Any other suggestions would be gratefully received.

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Hi Garry,

When we deployed Fold for Covid last spring, we worked closely with the Berkeley folks, who made a custom image for their BOINC project. As far as I know, the same support does not extend to other BOINC projects.

John

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Hi John,

That’s OK and good to know. Thank you for taking the time to clarify.